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<\/p>\n1 Bike Capital of America approves 2017\u00a0 NBG proclamation
\n2 Mayor\u00a0Robb Davis to ride Davis to Sacramento June 4\u00a0 from Ken’s Bike and Blisworks Bike and probably Grocery Outlet
\n3 A bit more about Keni and her music
\n4 Charles Lang impresses\u00a0 Eric Warp
\n5 Oakland 2017 NBG proclamation soon
\n6 Grocery Outlet to energize NBG Fest Attendees
\n7 Lightning Cycle & legendary,Tim Brummer, \u00a0 coming from Lompoc with worlds fastest bikes to be at Fest
\n8 Shaana Rahman bringing her award winning bike accident law firm from San Francisco to Davis NBG Fest
\n9 Martin Michael may be at our festival with\u00a0 book about his 2015 bike ride across America
\n10 Preview many sites listed at NBG Davis Bike attractions map at\u00a0 annual Tour de Cluck\u00a0 Davis\u00a0 May 6
\n11 Magdalena Gabriel to\u00a0 work UCD Whole Earth Table 5\/15.
\n12 Volunteer(s)\u00a0 needed for Flying Carousel, the pedal-powered Merry go round\u00a0 that benefits Davis public schools,
\n13 No tabling at April 22 Picnic Day anymore
\n14 Why the National Bicycle Greenway\u00a0 goes to Washington DC and not New York like Lincoln Highway did
\n15 Paddy on the Binge may join our Davis NBG Fest.
\n16 The Davis Biking Report Card<\/p>\n
1 Bike capital of America approves 2017\u00a0 NBG proclamation<\/b><\/p>\n
Got word late on Friday that the 2017\u00a0 NBG\u00a0 proclamation we have worked on with\u00a0 Robb Davis, the Mayor of the City of Davis, has been approved! Soon, Tom Ayres will be adding this to the proclamation from Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf that he will be pedaling\u00a0 to our second Second Davis NBG Fest on May 27 as a part of our 15th National Mayors’ Ride\u00a0 that ends in Washington DC\u00a0<\/p>\n
WHEREAS, Thomas Stevens, the first person to ride a bike across the United States did so on a HIWheel, the Davis city symbol: and<\/span><\/p>\n WHEREAS Stevens\u00a0<\/span>rode through Davis as noted\u00a0in the book he wrote about his 1884 journey\u00a0to Boston and then around the world; and<\/span><\/p>\n WHEREAS, by placing the bicycle at the center of its governance, Davis, home to the first bike lane in America, is\u00a0filled with\u00a0a plethora of bike\u00a0lanes, greenbelts, bike tunnels, traffic calmed streets and bike overpasses; and<\/span><\/p>\n WHEREAS\u00a0the nonprofit National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) first celebrated the City of Davis with a reception from then Mayor Ruth Asmundson and dignitaries from sister city\u00a0Sangju<\/span><\/a>, South Korea\u00a0 in 2003; and<\/span><\/p>\n WHEREAS, the first coast to coast highway, the Lincoln Hwy, passed through Davis in 1927; and<\/span><\/p>\n WHEREAS\u00a0the City of Davis is proud to be\u00a0home of\u00a0the first coast-to-coast bicycle highway, the National Bicycle Greenway that will connect our city, the Bicycle Capital of America, with the Capital of the United States, Washington DC, and the 18 other great cities in between.<\/span><\/p>\n NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that I, as the bike-centric, car-free Mayor of the City of Davis, welcome the bicyclists to our beautiful City \u00a0and do hereby declare Saturday, May 27, 2017, to be \u201cNational Bicycle Greenway Day\u201d in the City of Davis.<\/span><\/p>\n IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Davis to be affixed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Robb Davis \u00a0May 27, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n 2 Mayor Robb Davis to ride Davis to Sacramento June 4\u00a0 from Ken’s Bike and Blisworks Bike and probably Grocery Outlet<\/b><\/p>\n The weekend after our Davis NBG Fest, on a Sunday, Davis Mayor Robb Davis will join us as we ride from the city of Davis the bike capital of America to\u00a0 Sacramento, the state capital of California. A short 15.2 mile ride, we leave at 8 AM from Ken’s Bike, two blocks from the central downtown core before we travel the next\u00a0 few miles to Blisworks\u00a0 closer to the eastern edge of Davis. We are also set to tentatively stop at Grocery Outlet for an energy food recharge. Details on the latter soon!<\/p>\n An important right of passage for Davis Cyclists, This ride will take us across the same expanse of land that Thomas Stevens worked his way across in 1884 when he became the first man to ride a bicycle across America and then\u00a0 around the world. The expanse of land I refer to is the Yolo Bypass, that you’ve seen me talk about in here before. As a refresher, this body of water, and usually wetlands, which serves as a buffer between Davis and Sacramento, is an important overflow for the Sacramento River in times of possible flood. In fact, it can move more water than the Mississippi River and is 3 miles wide and 40 miles long!<\/p>\n \u00a03 A bit more about Keni and her music\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Keni<\/strong>, a former star athlete who fell from the top because of some pretty big health issues, used the music she writes and performs to renew herself. In between the lines of her tunes, she\u00a0 will be sharing some of what she learned at our Second Davis NBG Fest coming to Central Park on May 27. The vibrant, confident, and alive person she has become is the result of tough decisions she made to follow\u00a0 the voice\u00a0 that asked her what made her feel truly alive and not the expectations of others.<\/p>\n By approaching life in this way, she is able to give her all to all of that\u00a0 which she touches. And that includes her music which from a very young age she has long had a passion for! I cannot wait for festival attendees to hear her voice and her acoustic guitar sounds!<\/p>\n 4 Charles Lang impresses\u00a0 Eric Warp<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charles Lang<\/strong> will also\u00a0 be playing our\u00a0 5\/27 Second Davis NBG Fest at\u00a0 Central Park. Talk about a man committed to his craft, Charles, a UCD graduate, eats, sleeps, lives and breathes his piano mastery. As testimony to his magic in this regard, here locally, his music is in much demand. I feel honored that he has made time available to perform at our event!<\/p>\n I shared a sample of his music on Facebook, and Eric Warp, a music connoisseur of the highest form, shared the clip with a few of his music expert friends, and they were impressed..His web<\/strong><\/a>. 5 Oakland 2017 NBG proclamation soon\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n In case you missed it, here is the NBG Mayors’ Ride proclamation that Governor Jerry Brown gave us in 2004 when he was the Mayor of Oakland. If you click on the image, you will see the paragraphs that honor NBG Director, Martin Krieg in 2002 and in 2004.<\/p>\n I have been in dialogue with along time proclamationist, Michael Hunt, and he tells me that the Oakland proclamation by Oakland Mayor Libby Scharf is also soon forthcoming!<\/p>\n 6 Grocery Outlet to energize NBG Fest Attendees<\/b><\/p>\n The ink is not dry but we have a tentative “yes we will be there” from the people at Grocery Outlet! I am excited that they will be there because when you think of discount groceries, you think of food that is at the end of its shelf life or that it is often tasteless filler\u00a0 that is probably not good for you.<\/p>\n When I lived in Palo Alto for the better part of a decade, I first discovered a Grocery Outlet store in Redwood City. I could not believe some of the prices on\u00a0 genuine health food items. The discounts were so huge that I kept checking the dates on the food.\u00a0 I kept looking for other ways in which the food may have been compromised. I just could not believe it<\/p>\n This\u00a0 was the case on genuinely healthy food, but there was no way I thought they could could sustain such prices. So I did not make them a part of my regular grocery buying travel pattern<\/p>\n And yet now that\u00a0 I live about a mile from such a store, I can\u00a0 see that the blockbuster prices are really real.\u00a0 And consistent. So much so that I almost don’t want to let the secret get out. However it seems like the more people crowd\u00a0 the registers, the more different kinds of healthy foods circulate on and off the shelves. You just have to be quick wow.<\/p>\n And I would say there’s a 92% chance they will be\u00a0 exhibiting at our second Davis NBG Fest<\/p>\n 7 Lightning Cycle & legendary,Tim Brummer, \u00a0 coming from Lompoc with worlds fastest bikes to be at Fest\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n I used to pooh pooh their peculiar velocity thinking it was the man and not the machine that accounted for unfairled bicycle speed. It took only one ride on wide open roads for me to realize how silly my thinking long had been. Now when I see an upright cyclist off in the distance ahead of me, it’s never a question whether I can catch them, I ask myself how long it will take.<\/p>\n Timothy R. Brummer<\/a> will be there too. The bike’s inventor, all the way back in the 70s, his machines were the first to go 60 miles an hour and only lacked a registered track to prove that the 65 miles an hour they achieved was legitimate.<\/p>\n http:\/\/lightningbikes.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shaana Rahman<\/strong>, a bike accident attorney<\/strong><\/a>, who’s firm’s services are much in demand in San Francisco, will be coming to our second Davis NBG Fest to let Davis and nearby Sacrament\u00a0 cyclists know that she is there to help.<\/p>\n 9 Martin Michael may be at our festival with\u00a0 book about his 2015 bike ride across America<\/b><\/p>\n Martin Michael<\/strong>, the results getting Vice President of the Davis Bike Club came to Davis with his girlfriend, Ashlin Yahr, a PhD student in the UC Davis veterinary school in the summer of 2015.\u00a0 How did they get here from New York City via Frankfurt, Germany (where he grew up)? \u00a0 On a bicycle!<\/p>\n Not\u00a0 only did they come to Biketopia on a bike but they wrote a book about it. Entitled, “Next Stop, Pacific Ocean” you can view it here:<\/p>\n Here is what I said on the Davis Bike Club mailing list:<\/p>\n Martin #2 (I’m older!) is a class act indeed and he and his also amazing lady, Ashlin, who is studying veterinary medicine at UC Davis, both made me and the speakers from the Yolo Crisis Center feel very welcome. And after the evening was done, as a thank you for my presentation, Martin #2 gave me a copy of the book about his 2015 bike ride across America. Called “Next Stop Pacific Ocean, the story of a couple cycling through the US”, from what I have read so far, I am impressed by the writing and the adventure. You can see\/buy the book here – http:\/\/ And there’s a chance that if we can slow one or both of them down enough they’ll be able to show it at the table we have offered them. A well articulated book, it is also a great beginners guide for someone considering a long bike journey<\/p>\n 10 Preview many sites listed at NBG Davis Bike attractions map at\u00a0 annual Tour de Cluck\u00a0 Davis\u00a0 May 6<\/b><\/p>\n The 8th annual Tour de Cluck: A Bicycle Chicken Coop Crawl<\/strong> is coming the first Saturday in May, May 6. Starts at 9AM at Central Park, where we are holding our Second Davis NBG Fest<\/a>, and in a casual, fun way lets cyclists get under the hood here in Davis to visit beehives, edible gardens, water conservation systems and backyard chicken coops. The fee is $15 per rider. Kids ride free…<\/p>\n http:\/\/tourdecluck.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n It you go, you will see that this tour uses a lot of the Davis Bike Loop (in the Davis Bike Report Card below) and travels near many of the sites we list as the NBG Biking Attractions of Davis<\/strong><\/a> at this page<\/p>\n 11 Magdalena Gabriel to\u00a0 work UCD Whole Earth Table 5\/15.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Heard from Magdalena Zazirska Gabriel<\/a>l yesterday She wants to work the NBG booth at the Whole Earth festival at UC Davis the weekend of May 12 through the 14th! She wants to help us get information out about our Second Davis NBG Fest<\/a> May 27 at Central Park in Davis. Big Yahoo.<\/p>\n And who wants to help her? Magda can work a couple hours on Saturday the 13th. We also need coverage on Friday the 12th and Sunday the 14th! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 13 No tabling at April 22 Picnic Day anymore<\/b><\/p>\n The picnic day event here in Davis that you saw me asking volunteer tablers\u00a0 for, sent me a message. They no longer run tables at their huge event that takes place this year on April 22. As such, I guess I will just be riding in the HiWheel contingent. Maybe next year we can have a national bicycle reweigh group……<\/p>\n 14 Why the National Bicycle Greenway\u00a0 goes to Washington DC and not New York like Lincoln Highway did<\/b><\/p>\n The worlds first coast to coast car Highway, the Lincoln Highway, that crossed America in 1914, and made Davis a part of its upgraded new route in 1927, extended from San Francisco to New York City. The reason the national bicycle Greenway follows much of the Lincoln Highway passage across America but does not travel to the Big Apple is because of the 300+ mile section of the Greenway that is already complete.\u00a0 Once our route that you can find at BikeRoute.com, reaches Pittsburgh it travels to Washington DC, the end of our \u00a0 connection, because of the Great Allegheny passage and C&O canal trail. A\u00a0 car Free wonderland, this connection was\u00a0 first explored by our NBG Scouts from 2002 to 2007.<\/p>\n 15 Paddy on the Binge may join our Davis NBG Fest.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n They tell me they can amplify their sound and their complete group includes Lee Martin, a bagpiper and Laura Tjolker, a violinist. 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The worlds fastest bicycle, the Lightning Cycle Dynamics<\/a> P-38 that went across the United States in five days, one hour, will be presenting at the Second Davis NBG Fest<\/a> on May 27. For decades their machines have stood at the top of the hill ready to take on all challengers. And indeed they are fast.<\/p>\n![\"15219565_10210356615407947_4627190564202900938_n\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15219565_10210356615407947_4627190564202900938_n.jpg?resize=233%2C204\")
Here on the Davis back roads, it’s what Eric Warp<\/a> and I speed around on…<\/p>\n
\u00a08 Shaana Rahman bringing her award winning bike accident law firm from San Francisco to Davis NBG Fest\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-07-at-10.16.51-PM.jpg?resize=933%2C239\")
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12 Volunteer(s)\u00a0 needed for Flying Carousel, the pedal-powered Merry go round\u00a0 that benefits Davis public schools,<\/b><\/p>\n![\"17426182_1855639014723802_9189132116183879896_n\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17426182_1855639014723802_9189132116183879896_n.jpg?resize=320%2C240\")
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If our organizing committee agrees, we are going to be treated to the music of Paddy on the Binge. I got to hear three of them play at the Nugget shopping center near Blisworks Bike shop<\/strong> where Obin<\/strong> on the violin, Vince<\/strong> on the guitar and Skyler<\/strong> on the flute, were busking. UC Davis products, the music, with a Celtic influence was tight and fun to listen to.<\/p>\n
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16 The Davis Biking Report Card<\/strong><\/p>\n